Re: Problem with Octave, Gnuplot, Mac 10.7.3

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:18 AM, James R. Hunter wrote:

> I try to run any graphics command from within Octave (3.4.0 4/21/11 compile 
> from SourceForge). This calls Gnuplot (version from within the Octave Extras 
> folder) and it results in the following response:
> 
> Last login: Thu Feb  9 12:34:28 on ttys000
> b1212134:~ jameshunter$ exec 
> '/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires 
> version 14.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71: 25461 
> Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" 
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" 
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" 
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> 
> I have tried killing all the files and reloading them from the dmg. No joy. 
> The problem appears to be with Aquaterm, but I don't understand it. This 
> problem has only appeared since the last update of Lion from Apple (10.7.3).  
> Help?

You'll need to find a new gnuplot app for Lion. You can use one of the popular 
package managers ...

(1) FInk

        http://www.finkproject.org/

(2) MacPorts

        http://www.macports.org/

(3) Homebrew

        http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Or you can build and install yourself

        
http://bhou.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/how-to-install-gnuplot-in-mac-os-x-lion/

Ben